The Aarthi and Sriram Show
A show on optimistic conversations with people building and creating new products and technologies, hosted by veteran technologists Aarthi Ramamurthy and Sriram Krishnan.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 95
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
EP 37: Mastering the Art of Dealmaking: The Story of Uber's Chief Business Officer, Emil Michael
In this episode, we talked to Emil Michael, who is Silicon Valley's best dealmaker. This was a masterclass in negotiation, art of making deals, when to walk away from them, his story, working with Tr…
01:19:42 |
Sat 04 Mar 2023
EP 36 - Marc Andreessen and Steven Sinofsky Talk Sentience, Ethics, Job Impacts, and the Future of AI
In this episode, the gang gets back together! Marc Andreessen and Steven Sinofsky are back to talk about all things AI. We cover the rise of ChatGPT, Bing's AI powered chat Sydney, AI ethics, sentien…
01:16:07 |
Sat 25 Feb 2023
EP 35 - Lessons Learned from Creating League of Legends: Marc Merrill, Co-Founder of Riot Games, Producer of Netflix show 'Arcane'
In this episode, our special guest is Marc "Tryndamere" Merrill, co-founder of Riot Games, the game developer and publisher behind League of Legends.
This was an awesome episode and Marc is a fanta…
01:16:02 |
Sat 18 Feb 2023
EP 34 - Anders Hejlsberg, Microsoft Technical Fellow and creator of Typescript, C#, Turbo Pascal and Delphi on programming languages, and the power of working on long term projects
In this episode, we talk to Anders Hejlsberg, the creator of programming languages such. as C#, Typescript, Turbo Pascal and Delphi, on a life spent on building programming languages, the history of …
01:26:19 |
Sat 11 Feb 2023
Elad Gil on startup fundraising in 2023, his bold predictions for Silicon Valley, AI market map, energy and the politics of nuclear power, and how he finds the smartest builders
In this episode, we talked to Elad Gil - a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur, operating executive, and investor or advisor to companies including AirBnB, Pinterest, Square, and Stripe. He is also th…
01:22:45 |
Sat 04 Feb 2023
EP 32 - Tech Investors Advice During Mass Layoffs - Visas, New Jobs, LinkedIn | Sriram And Aarthi
This week, we're doing a quick 'solo episode' where we talk about layoffs in tech, what to do if you are impacted, the power of networking, shifting careers, consulting, and hitting the reset button…
00:45:53 |
Sat 28 Jan 2023
EP 31 Noam Shazeer - Google veteran and AI inventor on future of AI
This week we dive deep with Noam Shazeer, founder of Character.AI, Google veteran, and inventor of much of the current revolution in large language models including transformers, Mesh-Tensorflow, T5,…
01:01:28 |
Sat 21 Jan 2023
EP 30 How Andy Weir went from being an unknown sci-fi writer to a Matt Damon starring Hollywood blockbuster
Andy Weir is the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian, Artemis, Project Hail Mary, and Cheshire Crossing. His 2011 novel The Martian was adapted into the 2015 film of the same name direct…
01:27:58 |
Sat 14 Jan 2023
EP 29: Hollywood mega-producer Brian Grazer on making movies and why Tom Hanks needs to be saved
Brian Grazer is an Academy and Emmy award winning producer and writer. Grazer was personally nominated for four Academy Awards for Splash (1984), Apollo 13 (1995), A Beautiful Mind (2001), and Frost/…
00:55:41 |
Sat 07 Jan 2023
EP 28 - James Clear on writing a best selling book and how to pick up good habits for 2023 & beyond
In this episode, Aarthi and Sriram talked to James Clear, bestselling author of Atomic Habits (that sold over 9m copies!) and the popular 3-2-1 newsletter. We talked to him about writing and marketin…
00:57:20 |
Sat 31 Dec 2022
EP 27: Best of 2022 - our favorite episodes, movies, books, tech trends and looking forward to 2023
'tis the time for our year end roundup - we talk about our favorite episodes this year, and our favorite other content - books, movies, in-person meetup, tech trends, and what is getting us excited a…
00:45:30 |
Sat 24 Dec 2022
EP 26 - Steven Sinofsky on leading Office & Windows at Microsoft and the art of writing well
This week's special guest is Steven Sinofsky, one of our favorite techno-optimists responsible for shipping Windows and Office products at Microsoft used by billions of people. He is also the author …
01:54:18 |
Sat 17 Dec 2022
EP 25 - Indra Nooyi on leadership, immigrant mentality, India and meeting Steve Jobs
Indra Nooyi joins us this week as our special guest. In this episode we talked about her upbringing and early life, her career including leading PepsiCo, her leadership lessons, making it as an immig…
01:04:06 |
Sat 10 Dec 2022
EP 24 - Elon's first month at Twitter + our India trip and in-person meetup
In this 'solo' episode, Sriram and Aarthi talk about their trip to India and hosting the first in-person meetup in Chennai for fans of the podcast, as well as Sriram's take on Elon's first few weeks …
00:46:18 |
Sun 04 Dec 2022
Alex Wang of Scale AI on state of AI, startup building, AI in defense + ethics and learning to think
In this episode, Aarthi and Sriram talk to Alexandr Wang is the founder and CEO of Scale AI. Alex is a 25 year old dropout from MIT, and is the youngest self made billionaire. Scale AI is the data pl…
01:21:39 |
Tue 15 Nov 2022
Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk, good startup ideas, how to have the courage to think independently and finding a co-founder
In this episode, Aarthi and Sriram talked to the one and only Marc Andreessen who is back by popular demand. For those of you (who are clearly living under a rock) who don't know him, Marc Andreessen…
01:52:24 |
Sun 30 Oct 2022
Rich Roll on recovering from addiction to becoming a vegan ultra-endurance athlete, leading podcaster and bestselling author
In this episode, Aarthi and Sriram talk to Rich Roll, an ultra-endurance athlete who is vegan, a chart-topping podcast host and author of multiple bestselling books, on his journey from being in coll…
00:59:02 |
Sun 23 Oct 2022
Palmer Luckey on Elon Musk and John Carmack, selling Oculus for $2B and starting defense tech company Anduril
In this episode, Aarthi and Sriram talked to Palmer Luckey, the founder of Oculus and now the founder and CEO of Anduril. We talked about Palmer's unique childhood, how he started Oculus and essentia…
01:37:51 |
Sat 15 Oct 2022
Tanmay Bhat's Best Interview Ever
In this episode, Aarthi and Sriram talked to Tanmay Bhat, arguably India's most famous comedian, YouTuber, scriptwriter, actor, performer, producer and startup investor. We talked about Tanmay's earl…
01:31:10 |
Sat 08 Oct 2022
Emad Mostaque, founder of Stable Diffusion on AI ethics, religion, India's AI future and open source (Audio)
In this episode, Aarthi and Sriram talk to Emad Mostaque, the founder and CEO of Stability AI, the company behind Stable Diffusion AI (Artificial Intelligence). We covered everything from Emad's uniq…
01:16:08 |
Fri 30 Sep 2022
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